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Thank you. 🫂

Much respect to you for staying true to your principles. America is currently suffering under the most anti-science, anti-education administration in the country’s history. Luckily, it’s also the most inept, unqualified & unstable administration in the country’s history, and it will inevitably end.

fuck yeah

Earned a follow for this post.

Thank you! 🏳️‍⚧️

This post immediately made me tear up…thank you all so much. It’s a really rough time and the affirmation and support on top of this means a lot.

I forgot to follow you guys, shame on me 😭 I appreciate you a lot!!!

I am transgender and I literally can not stand the way adults treat me for it. They act like I have some disease I am going to infect them with.

Children socially transitioning is one thing. Giving them puberty blockers is quite another. In adult transgender people, 90% has a sexual fetish (according to research by Ray Blanchard), they are heterosexual men wearing womens clothes. How do we know the same is not true for children?

Nice to see that publications with courage and principles still exist, in an era when conservative and liberal bigots actively throw anyone and everyone under the bus. Trans lives matter. We stand with you.

Worth noting that in the 94% figure, of the remaining "detransitioners" most of them are just non-binary. So just, still trans people going on a normal journey. (This is not me shitting on the study, just clarifying how stark the results are on this one)

As a mom, this means the world to me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

This post makes me happy as someone who grew up on you.

Hell yeah

Popular Science = Science for the people.

Well that sold a magazine subscription to my nephew

Dang, I was not expecting that sort of integrity from a mainstream media outlet. Thank you, Popular Science!

That's the real test.

Was not expecting a "y'all" from Popular Science, but fair enough.

What an awesome thing to say to our unicorns. Thank you, Popular Science.

Thank you very much for this! 💖

Thank you

Thank you. Thank you so very much.

Thank you! At least one major publication is willing to tell the truth and of course it's a science magazine. Treating anti trans bullshit as a valid point of view is journalistic malpractice.

to conservatives this just confirms that they need to stop them sadly

Fuck yeah, Popular Science! Thank you for not both-sidesing things, as seems the norm in most media outlets.

Thank u

Thank you!

Thank you!!!

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Overheard

Hell yeah, right on. Much respect

I grew up reading popsci. For nearly 15 years the christmas gift from my grandma every year was renewing my subscription, and it was one of the best days of the month when a new one arrived really glad to see you on the right side of this, hell yeah

Thank you.

Mom of a trans son. Thank you! 🥰

If you had told me when I was a kid that the publication behind one of my favorite books (Popular Science: Science Year by Year) would actually go to bat for an entire community, I would have been absolutely gobsmacked. We desperately need this kind of public support right now. Thank you.

It's the UBI thing all over again.

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I grew up reading Pop Sci and this is really cool to see. Thank you 🙏🏻

Hell yeah! Good on you! I'm proud of y'all. ❤

Thank you. This means a lot. :-)

This just earned you a follow.

I believe trans kids should get free ponies as compensation for their trauma, including trans adults who were once obviously trans kids. Do you hold that stance, too?

Appreciate this immensely

Thankyou.

So happy for all those children! Thanks!

Arright, that's a follow.

Proud to be a reader. 🏳️‍⚧️

I had a subscription to Popular Science when I was a youngster in the Sixties, and I’m so happy to see their continuing emphasis on rigorous, fact based coverage. Thank you!

OK, and?

Yup, that's a follow

Thank you

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You're the one getting weird about well accepted standard medical care that's been practiced for decades with extremely few issues. I'm not sure what you expected

The gooner is a transphobe who could have guessed.

Life-threatening it is. It is not “want” to be another gender. You understand nothing. Go read interviews, articles, watch videos by trans people, their parents and doctors. Then realize you don’t get to have an opinion on this. This isn’t about you. At all.

Fuck off with how you want them to suffer.

you don't "completely support trans kids"

good thing it's none of your fucking business

Puberty blockers are just delaying puberty because it can be incredibly dysphoric for a trans kid. And that's completely reversible when they stop taking them.

Try reading the article

Thats the entire purpose of puberty blockers

“I support trans kids but I don’t think they should get any medical care” is a deranged stance.

I second the "nope", here's more detail - those are quite inoffensive drugs, widely used for precocious puberty. There's, as far as I can tell, one potential significant side effect, bone density issues. But: doctors' experiences are that it's trivial to counter with things like calcium supplements.

Nope -- this use is endorsed by major medical organizations, pretty well studied, and really just works as it says on the tin

I’d like to add to the chorus of “Puberty blockers save lives.” Puberty blockers stop when you stop taking them, and puberty starts. Trans people know we are trans usually well before age 10. Puberty blockers would have prevented a lot of suffering and debt, as being trans doesn’t go away, ever.

Why are you OK with them undergoing one puberty but not a different one? They're functionally the same thing, after all. *Any* puberty is a life-altering decision, the only way to meet your logic would be to keep *every kid on Earth* on puberty blockers until they turned 18.

The only treatments trans kids/teens get are treatments cis kids/teens also get. Why should only trans people be denied healthcare that other people have?

please, tell me. what would be harmful about delaying their puberty? why are THESE meds bad? or is it bad that we've allowed them a shred of autonomy, in spite of the less than 1% regret rate (which is lower than replacement knee surgery)?

What you think doesn’t matter. You are not trans or a doctor or a parent of a trans youth. Talk to and listen to people who know what they’re talking about. You’re not supporting at all.

If the drug has side-effects, they're being monitored and compensated for by very educated people who understand the individual biochemical processes involved. Calcium and Vitamin D supplements to offset bone density loss, diuretics for blood sodium, and so on.

Story was published in 2022. Publication is now defunct, information contained within is not

BRB, going to subscribe for the first time.

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Popular Science you’re doing amazing sweetie

This sort of open, public-facing support is so important. Thank you.

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Read yall when I was young. Sounds like I might have to pick your magazine back up. Thank you.

This is the best thing I've read on Bluesky in a long while. Thanks for making this a public stance.

The fact that people identify as trans is reality. That's measurable, and obviously that affects who you are, what behaviour you exhibit in your daily life. Whether you treat those people with empathy is the only question here.

Study finds that being nice and inclusive to trans people makes them healthier, happier people. Who woulda thunk it??

“Nothing that makes me feel bad can be real”

"WAGH WAGH, I HATE SCIENCE!!!" Amazing logic. Now go away, adults are talking.

Based

Hell yes

I imagine you are getting alot of crap on that other site, but you'll see far less pushback here. We have compassion and we care about people here. Keep fighting the good fight. the world needs as many allies as it can get.

Thank you for being clear and bold about this!

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“Popularizing Science”, maybe?

Based on your name, you should be covering more dinosaurs

Thank you. Apparently it's actually not all that hard for journalists to write about trans issues without being massively transphobic. Who knew? Not the New York Times, that's for sure.

Thank you. Absolutely getting a follow and my adoration. 🖤

Thank you for doing what so many news and information sources won't and telling the reality of trans lives, rather than playing into bigotry and controversy for click bait.

Science means nothing to people who deny reality ... sadly.

Outstanding.

Thank you

Thank-you

Awesome!

Been a fan for decades, and y'all just earned yourselves even more credit than you already had in my heart. Politics doesn't change facts, no matter how hard they keep trying. Protect trans kids. They deserve love and safety; many will never find either with their biological family.

This is a list of over 1500 GOP predators since 2016. tinyurl.com/yc86m6x4 1313: Trump's spiritual advisor r@ped a child www.bbc.com/news/article... 1381: The TDS guy. tinyurl.com/eichorn1 Don't trust children's medicine to people who see kids as inconvenient witnesses.

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that's a clear yes from @popsci.com or poopshit dod com -like the interns like to call it..

Thank you, keep up the good work!